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, middle pulley x', will, therefore, work the shaft C for 'the time being.

' fritte strat @moet neem Parent No. 76,783, dmoz apra I4, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT In-no(in-Lafraise'l l site stimuli referat tu in lgese rttas bien rut making ont nf tie rfrnc.I

' roALI. WHoM I'rMAY coNoERN: l

Be it lincwn that I, GEORGE W'. .E'ELTES, of Carbondale, in the county of Jackson, and State of illinois, have l invented anew und useful Improvement in Spoke-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following 'to'be a full,

clear, and 'exact description of the'samo, referncevbeng had to the accompanying draWng8,-f0rmng parli Uf this specieatien, and in which l A i Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of my' invention. Figure 2 a. top view ofthe same. Figure is a scctionof the screw-shaft C, showing the pulleys a: a ai, Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.' In this`maehine the spokes are placed in a movable frame, and held against the knives.' The latter are attached to revolving wheels borne backward and forward by a 'carriage worked withal screw. In order that others sk'illedin the art to ivliich my invention appertains may be enabled-to make and use the saine, I' will proceed to describe it in detail. I

In the drawings, A'rep'rcscnt parts of A the frame of my machine. B isthe main. working-shaft and beltdrum. C is the scre\v-shai't, the revolutions of which move the carriage D -bak and forth along the track a a. E -E are shafts bearing wheels e c', attached to the peripheri's-of which-are the cuttingand.planixlgekniv es.v .F is a frame'hinged at its bottom like the lathe of a loom, and bearing thel spokes andthe models, with the appratus for revolving them. V

The povvcr is applied at the shaft B, and from ,that communicated rst to the screw-shaft() bymeans of i one of the belts c e', the belt, c, -carrying the shaft C in one direction, and the belt, el, carrying it in the oppo" site direction, thus causing tho carrizige D to move back or forth,'aecording as the `one belt` or the other'is working. Y

The working'of the belts is regulated by the following-described device: Three pulleys, x x m4", areplacedon the shaftC, near its end, the middle one iixed rmly'testhe shaft; theothers, revolvingloosely uponthe Alongside of the shaft are two rods H H", having shoulders or pins h, against which the iixed post Dof the carriage strikes as it reaches the end of its movement 'in eitherdirection, sliding the rod whch'it strikes, short distance along with the' carriage` Other pins, t' z' z" i, upon the rods H H', engage with the belts c e',

and when the rod H is pushed valongby the carriage, its pins z'z, between which the belt c runs, move that beltV olf of the pulley 11: on to the idle pulley in, and move the belt e', which is crossed. from-the idle pulley z 0n to the working pulley rv', which changes the 4direction of revolution of, the screw-shaft, and brings the carriage D back to where' itstartrd;V When at that point, the other rod, H', reverses the position of the belts, andthe motion of the shaft C again, and so on. The male screw of theshaft C working in a female screw in the arm D projecting downward from the carriage, is the means by which motion is communicated from the shaft tothe carriage.

The shafts E E',-bearing the cutting-wheels e e', bear on journals in boxes in postsI I attached'toth'e carriage, and receive their motion' from the main shaft B by me'ans of the belts K K.

L L are the models of vthe spokestobe manufactured, bearing against the trucks m m on the4 upper art of the carriage-frame. M M are pieces of wood which are to become spokes by the operation of'ths machine.

They are all held by the spindles a n an, and caused to revolve by the belt M running from the shaft N, their motions being connected together by the cog-wheels 0 o o.

The shaft N receives its motion from the screw-shaft C by meahs of a belt, p, and pulleys n and fr. '.llhe

size of the 'various pulleys is so adjusted that when the machinofis in operation the cutting-wheels e e will have a very rapid motion, and th'e screw-shaft C, the shaft N, arid the models and spoke-sticks a slow motion.,

The frame F, hinged at its bottom, is pressed towards the carriage by the springs P P or their'equivalents.-

It is evident that ther shape of the spokes formed from the sticks MM will be conformed to thatof the modell L, the frame F whichholdsvthe spoke-sticks approaching or ree'eding from the cutting-knives according to the form of the models where they bear against the guiding-trucks m m. In this way the spokes may be cut in any `desired form. j' Y u i 'Any number of shafts E E and spokefsteks may he employed, and as large a number of spokes manu-V factored at once asmaybe desired.

In connection with the two models L arranged `and operated ns idesorihed, I claim the arrangement oi n A -series of revolving shafts,` E E; each bearingtwo cutting-instruments, one at each end of the shaft, the shafts` `being held in a sliding frame, which allows the cutters onone and of the series to operate upon a series of stinks' parallel to one model,4 While those on the other end of the series operate on another series of sticks parallel to `the other model, whereby any number of spokes, M MUM M, may be made simultnneonslybin a singlemnchine.

GEORGE w. FELTEs. 

